PhD Program
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Canada
- Cultural and Intellectual
- State, Politics, and Law
- United States
Areas of Interest
Mass Media and Communication; Propaganda; Nationalism; Political History; American History; History of the Civil War Era; Irish-American History
Major and Minor Fields
Major
- American History
Minor 1
Media History
Minor 2
Canadian History
Biography
Louis Reed-Wood is a historian of media and communication in the nineteenth-century United States, specifically focusing on the theme of propaganda. His dissertation project examines nationalist propaganda campaigns in 1860s America.
Louis is also the creator and host of Off-Campus History, a podcast about popular portrayals of history (such as films, games, and museums/historic sites). Each episode features an interview with a fellow historian about a popular portrayal of the history they study.
Awards
- 2022 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 2021 Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Award Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2018 Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master's Award Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2016 Copland Prize in the Humanities [Top Graduate in the Humanities] University of Saskatchewan
Publications
- “'Makers of loyalty’: recruiting propaganda in the Civil War North” (Taylor & Francis Online : 2021)
- “‘War is No Longer a Thing of Pomp and Pageantry’: University of Saskatchewan Student Perspectives on the Great War” (Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan : 2016)
Education
MA in History, University of Calgary
BA (Honours) in History, University of Saskatchewan
Cohort
- 2018-2019